We could also point to sleepwalkers of various sorts: even when executing complex actions (like murdering someone), I’ve never seen any accounts which mention deeply felt emotions. (WP emphasizes their dullness and apathetic affect.)
Nitpick: Sleepwalking proper apparently happens during non-REM sleep; acting out a dream during REM sleep is different and has its own name. Although it seems like sleepwalkers may also be dreaming somehow even though they aren’t in REM sleep? I don’t know—this is definitely not my area—and arguably none of this is relevant to the original point; but I thought I should point it out.
Yeah, my point was simply that we have “p-zombies” of sorts involving sleep, which demonstrate that you can take complex actions conscious-like reacting to the real world during sleep which would normally (if done while waking) seem to entail intense emotion but appear to not involve real emotion much or at all. So that helps support the idea that in a different part of sleep, you could be taking complex actions conscious-like reacting to a mental world which would seem to entail intense emotions but aside from the remembered content and some weak physiological traces like sweat or heart-rate, do not appear to involve real emotion much or at all.
(Which part of ‘sleep’ the former happens in is not too important; but of course it is better if it can happen in REM proper, to more strongly support the thesis that it could happen elsewhere during REM.)
Nitpick: Sleepwalking proper apparently happens during non-REM sleep; acting out a dream during REM sleep is different and has its own name. Although it seems like sleepwalkers may also be dreaming somehow even though they aren’t in REM sleep? I don’t know—this is definitely not my area—and arguably none of this is relevant to the original point; but I thought I should point it out.
Yeah, my point was simply that we have “p-zombies” of sorts involving sleep, which demonstrate that you can take complex actions conscious-like reacting to the real world during sleep which would normally (if done while waking) seem to entail intense emotion but appear to not involve real emotion much or at all. So that helps support the idea that in a different part of sleep, you could be taking complex actions conscious-like reacting to a mental world which would seem to entail intense emotions but aside from the remembered content and some weak physiological traces like sweat or heart-rate, do not appear to involve real emotion much or at all.
(Which part of ‘sleep’ the former happens in is not too important; but of course it is better if it can happen in REM proper, to more strongly support the thesis that it could happen elsewhere during REM.)